The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-03-18
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE FATAL FACILITY" OF MAR.
RAGE IN MODERN SOCIETY.

Healthy Nerves and Shattered vitality.
Young Ladies' ~ Foreign Tourists.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ut Nsst's-Cure
For whooping Cough-suggestions.
The writer says that facility and frequency
OF divorce IN not In itself an evil but "A result
OF other evils that lie deeper II people do
not wish to be divorced all the laws and
courts between here and tophet couldn't sepa-
rate them. Divorce Is not disease, but
only, at the worst, a symptom Of preceding
disease, or perhaps more truly desperate
clutch at remedy for q desperate disease.
This author urges more serious consideration
before entering into marriage relations, and
the remembrance that two people who are
married have their individual lives to lead
none the less because Of the new relation, and
mutual concession must be made or disaster
In some form will be the result. That all in
telligent people nowadays know that one
body, more powerfully constituted than an-
other with which it Is closely associated often
absorbs, SO to speak, the others vitality, leav-
ing 1t listless, pale, steadily wasting away,
and that a like process, mental and moral, is
not infrequent. strong masterful will taking
the color out Of another individuality, and
all this without necessary reference to the
difference of sex, which, when added to the
other preponderance, makes the result more
disastrous.
All this voices a profound truth, and this
author hints vaguely at the necessity for
more complete, judicious, and common sense
instructions Of the young ON themes which
are connected with the general subject Of
marriage. 1t is doubtless true that the scope
of current education is not practical enough
in this direction, but the chief difficulty seems
to be that young people are not led enough
to apply the knowledge their education brings
them to the practical aims of life, marriage
among others, and perhaps most important
OF all. The fact is we hear no end of SWIVEL
ing drivel talked OH the "frightful facility of
divorce" IN our time, and men and women
are frantically engaged in trying to erect bar
riers against it-barriers which, like a con-
tinually rising dam against an accommodating
stream, will serve only to make the final in
evitable disaster more terrible.
The simple truth is that the fault lies not
In easy divorce, but in the fatal facility Of
our society. With us anybody
may -practically-and they do it all
the time, without thought or calculation or
reflection of any kind about relative fitness,
physical, mental, moral, social, or any other,
without any thought of duties to each other
or the world, without the faintest thought for |
the future in any way-with less exhibition
of prudence Or care than any one of them
would show in forming a six months partner.
ship in the business of selling tape or peanuts.
People may preach and pray and SWIVEL and |
growl about it as much as they please, but all |
in vain, for it is a logical and philosophical |
social necessity which no power on earth can |
escape that, while men and women remain |
what they are, if marriage remains as easy of |
as it is, divorce must be CORE
spondingly easy, or worse disaster will follow. |
The boiler into which you force steam faster
than some escape can relieve it, will burst,
no matter how stoutly made Chicago Times
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